Me smiling next to a trophy in the school’s front desk, windows showing a frozen outdoors backdrop, with dramatic glow effect
Alone smiling next to a trophy our team earned in an annual competition, a reminder of trauma we had buried getting us there!

Narcissistic self-trauma, the society we built!

It was 6 years ago when I hit adversity that derailed my life far off track…

Saleh Abdel Motaal
1 min readMay 24, 2020

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It was 6 years ago that adversity derailed my life enough, it autistically opened up a flood gate where I revisited everything I took for granted about my life and reality…

What I saw… I was living out in a world where I was too afraid to admit it, that I can only live out here if I learned to be the narcissist of my own trauma…

But I could not do it consistently for some reason…

And so I had to accept, there must be a reality where I needed to not try to do what is not possible for me to sustain, I was sure there are others out there who must have come to know all that…

Today, I saw this video, and I was able to find the words to verbalize what my mind knew all that time…

I don’t regret it… that 6 years ago… deep down… nonverbally… unknown to my verbal self… I’d just decided to give up masking all of that.

To be continued…

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Saleh Abdel Motaal

I don’t write the words, I splice at ones coming at me, until they resonate with what I found written out in my mind ∞